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International salary guide
Fancy a stint working abroad? Find out what the pay and perks are in nine countries across Europe and the Far East in this year’s Hays Montrose/Building international salary guide.
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Speak easy
Voice recognition systems have come a long way in the past five years. Now, surveyor Ridge and Partners is using the technology to stay one step ahead of the competition.
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Essential reading
Three crucial summer reads reviewed: the first on construction’s eternal triangle, the second a “tour de force” on procurement law, and a third that makes the law of damages easy to understand.
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The PFI’s poisoned chalice
Due diligence requirements in PFI contracts have created a lucrative role for consultants: checking. The only problem is that if anything you checked goes wrong, you may be liable for 100% of the damages.
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ADR: a costly alternative?
New rules encourage negotiation as an alternative to litigation to solve contractual disputes, but uncertainty about recovering costs is hampering take-up of it.
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A game of two halves
Specification writers have a dual role on design-and-build projects: to help the bidders understand what the client wants and to ensure that its needs are met within cost and time constraints.
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Cost update
This quarter's analysis focuses on finishing materials prices and labour rates for plumbers
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Blowing the whistle
Employees who publicise wrongdoing have a new act to protect them. How does it work?
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Appointments
ContractorsMartin Chambers, previously with Mace, has joined Bovis Construction as regional director for the Midlands.Henry Boot Construction has appointed John Hopkins business development manager responsible for building and civil engineering in London and the South-east.HousebuilderWainhomes has appointed Chris Chilcott construction director for the Midlands.ConsultantsGlen Godfrey has joined QS GF Partnership ...
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Farrell’s anguish in China
In the race for Beijing’s £300m theatre, Terry Farrell bust his budget and spent 18 months at the drawing-board. So why was he pipped at the post?
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Dream factories
How up-and-coming architect Ash Sakula turned a former mill into elegant offices and added an eye-catching spiral staircase to a rubber mat factory.
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Three of the best
Refurbishment projects in Cheshire, Glasgow and Suffolk all feature sympathetic modern interventions in historic buildings.
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All systems go together
The former head of IT at Bovis, explains how interoperable computing systems could help construction teams speak the same language.
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Who's going to pay?
Does the Scheme for Construction Contracts give adjudicators the power to make one side pay the other's costs in an adjudication? The jury is still out.
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Dirty, dangerous work
A consultant recently went down for almost £20m after a judge found that it had negligently advised its client as to how much remediation was required in a development. What are the lessons for others?
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Free isn't always fair
Beware the exclusion clause – you can't always rely on the Unfair Contract Terms Act to get you out of trouble.
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Cost study: Teaching and research facility
In the first completed PFI project in higher education, a listed Victorian hospital building was converted into an advanced teaching and research facility. The 25-year service contract called for detailed life-cycle costing of materials. Compiled by Jarvis and HLM Architects
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Just the job
The Aukett Associates director tells Nancy Cavill why he gave up teaching, and why, like a swan, he never loses his cool.
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Tron Theatre, Glasgow
RMJM Scotland has just completed the final phase of a £5m refurbishment of Glasgow s Tron Theatre in a suitably dramatic style. The theatre was created in 1982 from a tight-knit cluster of medieval, Georgian and Victorian buildings. The most recent work includes the refurbishment of the main auditorium, ...